CORONELLI, V.M. - Two polar calottes from a globe.

Two polar calottes from 110 centimeters in diameter globe of 1688 including northern part of Baffin Bay, Greenland, Nova Zembla. Coronelli elected to follow the Dutch interpretation of arctic Canada, but added a single waterway almost linking Hudson Strait with Cumberland Strait, possibly as a compromise to the Sanson version. Some of the half-gores were reprinted in the 1696-97 edition of his Isolario and later in his Libro del Globi.
The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and Doctor of Theology, was citizen of the Republic of Venice. He was also one of the most prominent mapmakers and publishers in Europe of his day.